Jeremy Kirsten, a MCIPS Procurement and Supply professional, Project Manager, Consultant and Change Manager, shares a few fundamentals that a newly appointed senior procurement leader must endeavour to stick to, in this month’s SmartProcurement. Get to know your stakeholders – Having their buy in is critical because without that, trying to get projects or […]
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The Eastern Cape Department of Health & Treasury (ECDHT) has taken its first important steps towards professionalising supply chain management (SCM) within it ranks. In pursuit of supply chain excellence and improved service delivery ECDHT has engaged with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) Africa, a professional body for procurement and supply
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The phrase “the customer is king” is well known, you don’t hear words like this when procurement people talk about suppliers. It is no coincidence that companies that really value their customers also treat their suppliers well. Influencing and persuasion skills are competencies that both procurement executives and their stakeholders need to develop to
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How does a procurement card differ from a company credit card or a charge card? Anita Carolus, Nedbank Corporate Card National Sales Manager, explains in this month’s SmartProcurement. Even though procurement cards are physical pieces of plastic that allow spend, they are different from credit cards in many key aspects: • Procurement cards simplify low-value,
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Building an organisational scorecard showing B-BBEE achievements against the relevant codes is useful in itself. However, for most organisations this exercise is manual, takes a long time to complete and is retrospective. What is required is a service that goes beyond a static scorecard to a fully integrated B-BBEE analysis service that tracks strategic
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The photo alongside of the construction of iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge got James Marland, Vice President of Network Strategy for Ariba, an SAP Company, thinking. Work began on the landmark structure in 1925, and the construction work moved steadily inwards until it finally met in the middle five years later. While you won’t find
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Recent Gartner research indicates that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are showing their age and that, by 2016, it will be common practice to refer to ERP as legacy software.¹ Increasing supply chain complexity, driven by globalisation, outsourcing and widely distributed partner networks, has created challenges that current ERP systems cannot fully address, Tech-Pro
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The furor that currently surrounds the New Codes presents an opening to win business from competitors who are trying to find reasons to not comply. Implement the New Codes now to get a head start on your business rivals, says The Hope Factory business mentor Roche Mamabolo in this month’s SmartProcurement. While some detractors
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Research in the Courier and Express Parcel (CEP) industry shows that brands choosing a delivery partner consider reliability, efficiency and accuracy of data before cost. “You get what you pay for.” South African businesses seeking CEP partners are familiar with this maxim, according to a benchmark research report prepared by independent research specialists TerraNova.
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The on-going sustainable development of black-owned small, medium and micro enterprises (BSMMEs) is imperative to secure the future economic growth of South Africa. We have seen how past actions have limited what should be a free-market economy and left BSMMEs facing a number of challenges when it comes to getting a business off the
Drivers supporting procurement from black-owned SMMEs outweigh constraints Read More »
